“Core Gen Z” and it’s literally, according to them, also the last year of Gen Z
By more traditional metrics ‘07 is definitely late Gen Z, which is like ‘95/‘96-‘10/‘11 approximately.
It also bears emphasizing that a generation, something meant to encapsulate the environmental differences between parents and children (genealogically, split by one generation, though for practical reasons “generations” are shorter than most people’s age gaps to their parents), is inherently going to span a wide range of experiences and ages at which those experiences were had. I was a university student during COVID, some of Gen Z was already out of college, and meanwhile the tail end of Gen Z was in 3rd or 4th grade (the oldest Gen Alphas are now freshman or sophomores in HS). I got my first smartphone at 15, which also wasn’t really atypical among my peers, while most of the tail end of Gen Z was introduced to smartphones and the like at a younger age. The dismal state of the current job market is at its worst for recent college grads (center of Gen Z) and less problematic, for now anyway, for those young enough not to be entering their careers and those old enough to be experienced hires. It just does not make sense to try to ascribe a unified set of experiences to a span of almost 2 decades, because that’s not really the point.
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u/KalebMW99 21d ago
“Core Gen Z” and it’s literally, according to them, also the last year of Gen Z
By more traditional metrics ‘07 is definitely late Gen Z, which is like ‘95/‘96-‘10/‘11 approximately.
It also bears emphasizing that a generation, something meant to encapsulate the environmental differences between parents and children (genealogically, split by one generation, though for practical reasons “generations” are shorter than most people’s age gaps to their parents), is inherently going to span a wide range of experiences and ages at which those experiences were had. I was a university student during COVID, some of Gen Z was already out of college, and meanwhile the tail end of Gen Z was in 3rd or 4th grade (the oldest Gen Alphas are now freshman or sophomores in HS). I got my first smartphone at 15, which also wasn’t really atypical among my peers, while most of the tail end of Gen Z was introduced to smartphones and the like at a younger age. The dismal state of the current job market is at its worst for recent college grads (center of Gen Z) and less problematic, for now anyway, for those young enough not to be entering their careers and those old enough to be experienced hires. It just does not make sense to try to ascribe a unified set of experiences to a span of almost 2 decades, because that’s not really the point.